Not the original Terry Nation production that ran on the BBC for four seasons beginning in 1978, but according to the Hollywood Reporter, a brand new production made for the Syfy Channel for the US market. You can find a more extensive article about the project at The Guardian, although the facts available remain the same except for the item they consider the director worth mentioning for (the TV show Heroes in the US, the movie Goldeneye in the UK). As depressing as the plotline often was, I enjoyed the original Blake’s 7, and look forward to seeing if it gets the same quality of reboot as Syfy gave Battlestar Galactica.
We are rapidly approaching the 50th anniversary, and everyone is gearing up for it. These trailers really set the tone for the New Who 7th Season, which will lead us up to the celebration. The first by recapping the New Doctor so far, while the second pulls from every Doctor back to the beginning. I just have this to say to Last Whovian: amazing job, and keep up the good work!
The new show from BBC America is Copper, about a cop in 1864 New York City. As far as I know this is something new for them, producing their own original TV series, but they have some good ones in the pipe. I am particularly looking forward to seeing David Tennent as a spy, the closest he might get to playing Bond.
The target location being Woodlawn Park in Portland, Oregon. The team from Atomic Arts are doing live presentations of Journey to Babel as presented on screen by TOS (The Original Series, as if you didn’t already know). I will now be going through all the Con Event postings in my part of the country to see if I can find them performing at a venue a little close than the other side of the continent, since I would love to see this on stage.
The story itself was written by D.C. Fontana, and first published in the March 1953 edition of the pulp magazine Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder. J/K, because that’s the magazine from the DS9 episode Far Beyond the Stars in which the entire cast got to be humans putting out a science fiction magazine, one of my personal favorites from that series. But they posted it that way in Memory Alpha, and after I got done laughing I just had to pass the joke along.
H+ The Digital Series launched this week online, and it looks like a very interesting project. The stage is globe-spanning, the cast includes a few old favorites, and the plot is intriguing. You can upgrade yourself by getting a chip implant called HPlus, which gives you internet access just by thinking about it. But then a virus is released and one third of the H+ users (which is most of humanity by that point) die overnight. Some of the survivors go offline, some stay online, and some were never part of the network, but they all try to put their world back together. Besides the web site they are also running a You Tube Channel, and you can watch the first six episodes now by subscribing to it. There is a good interview over at Tor you might like to read as well.
The British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf has been a favorite of mine for quite a while, and I am happy Dave TV decided to pick it up for some new seasons. They are posting a new special update every Friday leading up to the launch of season 10